Digital Humanities: Free Web Resources

DigiPal is a new resource for the study of medieval handwriting, particularly that produced in England during the years 1000–1100, the time of Æthelred, Cnut and William the Conqueror. It is designed to allow you to see samples of handwriting from the period and to compare them with each other quickly and easily.

by Will Fenton. Makes available dozens of political cartoons, manuscripts, broadsides, pamphlets, and German-language translations of pamphlets related to the Paxton incident.

free online resource by Kevin Kiernan, Editor and Emil Iacob, Software Engineer

The Hildemar Project is a collaborative translation project of Hildemar of Corbie’s Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti, a 650 pages long sentence-by-sentence commentary to the Rule of Benedict.

Corpus Christi College and the Stanford University Libraries welcome you to Parker Library on the Web, a digital exhibit designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library is a treasure trove of rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as early printed books. Almost all manuscripts in the Parker Library collection have been fully digitised and are available in this exhibit, along with associated bibliographic references and annotations made by scholars from around the world.

[Old French] Interactive online digital edition of La Queste del Saint Graal (Quest for the Holy Grail), manuscript Lyon, BM. p.a. 77.
It allows visualizing manuscript images, several layers of transcription and translation into modern French

facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator.

The Humanities and Technology Camp, is an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot.

Including:
• Datasets for content mining - Content suitable for use in text and data mining research
• Datasets for image analysis
• Image collections suitable for large-scale image-analysis-based research
• Digital mapping

View digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents.

[In French, Latin] Online digital library containing reproductions of more than 15300 medieval manuscripts, either as full reproductions (5200 MSS: in color or in grey level images) or partly reproduced (iconography and decor)

Digital Humanities guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities curated by Alan Lui, UC Santa Barbara

Includes guides, tools, datasets, tutorals - curated by Alan Lui, UC Santa Barbara

[In French] Online digital library supported by the French National Library, containing more than 2 millions documents of all sorts (printed books and series, scores, music, etc.), including full reproductions of Western medieval manuscripts and descriptions and links to Western medieval manuscripts. The images are freely available and may be use for non-commercial purposes. There are also many editions of medieval sources (cartularies, literary texts, etc.).

The Bibliographies report on research related to Anglo-Saxon England—books, articles, and reviews on literature, language, history, art, archaeology, onomastics, and other topics

develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. The OTA also gives advice on the creation and use of these resources, and is involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources.

The Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. The OTA also gives advice on the creation and use of these resources, and is involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources.

professional society for the digital humanities, supporting and disseminating research through conferences, publications, and outreach activities

Digital Paxton promotes collaborative, transdisciplinary digital humanities research and encourages grants in the humanities. Through its endowment, the Center provides mentoring opportunities for the next generation of humanities scholars.

serves as an arena for the discussion of issues germane to crossdisciplinary activity in the humanities, and as a network for the circulation of information and best practices related to the organizational and management dimensions of humanities centers and institutes.

from ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) U.S.

provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the theory and practice of textual scholarship in Europe.

an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists that are changing the way we teach and learn

a trusted, nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work.

specializes in text and image analytics for cultural heritage collections, data curation, digital preservation, linked data applications, and data publishing.

part of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Colored & Aligned Texts view

Guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities by researchers, teachers, and students. Curated by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.

an experimental data visualization web application to gather, visualize, and share data tables.

Open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. Originally designed to aid scholars and editors examine the history of a text from manuscript to print versions, Juxta offers a number of possibilities for humanities computing and textual scholarship.

novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research

Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.

easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish

Upload your plain text .CSV file into RAW; then use this open web app to create custom vector-based visualizations such as dispersions, flows and correlations.

Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities has been developed for use by community-driven sites and projects that aim to structure information relevant to digital humanities and make it more easily discoverable.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

from Northwestern University Knight Lab tool for telling stories, making timelines

free platform for generating and customizing views- interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds

Web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts